ReviewSchmerz (Berlin, Germany)2025
[Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy for chronic pain].
Review in Schmerz (Berlin, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Effectiveness of a Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Treatment in Clinical Care: A Sequential Single-Case Experimental Design.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Trial
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Abstract
backgroundIntensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a psychodynamic treatment model that can achieve medium to strong effects in patients with functional (primary) pain.
objectivesWe aim to summarize the theoretical background, therapeutic techniques, and evidence of ISTDP. MATERIALS AND
methodsNarrative literature review. RESULTS AND
conclusionsUnlike usual psychodynamic psychotherapy, ISTDP is a highly focused approach. In the treatment of primary pain patients, the aim is to help patients experience their unconscious conflictual feelings that cause various anxiety symptoms (e.g., muscular tension, nausea, gastrointestinal cramps) and are maintained by defense mechanisms. By improving affect tolerance, overcoming maladaptive defense mechanisms, and processing the repressed complex feelings, there is a reduction or even remission from primary pain. ISTDP achieves medium to strong effects in terms of pain reduction and, thus, appears to be superior to cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of primary pain. However, further research is needed.
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